Jeremiah 47:6

New American Bible - revised edition

Ah! Sword of the Lord! When will you find rest? Return to your scabbard; stop, be still!

Cross References

2 Samuel 2:26

Then Abner called to Joab and said: “Must the sword devour forever? Do you not know that afterward there will be bitterness? How long before you tell the people to stop pursuing their brothers?”

1 Chronicles 21:27

Then the Lord gave orders to the angel to return his sword to its sheath.

Psalm 17:13

Rise, O Lord, confront and cast them down; rescue my soul from the wicked.

Isaiah 10:15

Will the ax boast against the one who hews with it? Will the saw exalt itself above the one who wields it? As if a rod could sway the one who lifts it, or a staff could lift the one who is not wood!

Isaiah 10:5

Ah! Assyria, the rod of my wrath, the staff I wield in anger.

Jeremiah 12:12

Upon every height in the wilderness marauders have appeared. The Lord has a sword that consumes the land from end to end: no peace for any living thing.

Jeremiah 12:4

How long must the land mourn, the grass of the whole countryside wither? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it beasts and birds disappear, for they say, “God does not care about our future.”

Jeremiah 15:3

Four kinds of scourge I have decreed against them—oracle of the Lord—the sword to kill them; dogs to drag them off; the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy them.

Jeremiah 25:27

Tell them: Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink! Get drunk and vomit! Fall, never to rise, before the sword that I will send among you!

Jeremiah 4:21

How long must I see the signal, hear the blast of the horn!

Jeremiah 48:10

Cursed are they who do the Lord’s work carelessly, cursed those who keep their sword from shedding blood.

Jeremiah 50:35

A sword upon the Chaldeans—oracle of the Lord— upon the inhabitants of Babylon, her princes and sages!

Ezekiel 14:17

Or if I bring the sword upon this land, commanding the sword to pass through the land cutting off from it human being and beast alike,

Ezekiel 21:30

And as for you, depraved and wicked prince of Israel, a day is coming to end your life of crime.

Zechariah 13:7

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the one who is my associate —oracle of the Lord of hosts. Strike the shepherd that the sheep may be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones.

John 18:11

Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into its scabbard. Shall I not drink the cup that the Father gave me?”

Judges 7:20

When the three companies had blown their horns and broken their jars, they took the torches in their left hands, and in their right the horns they had been blowing, and cried out, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!”